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Asymmetrical Friendship in the Age of Enlightenment Sociability.

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Title/Author:	Asymmetrical Friendship in the Age of Enlightenment Sociability./
Author:	Bryzik, Renee Maureen.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	206 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-04A.
Subject:	Literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13864416
ISBN:	9781085796217

Asymmetrical Friendship in the Age of Enlightenment Sociability.
Bryzik, Renee Maureen.

Asymmetrical Friendship in the Age of Enlightenment Sociability. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 206 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2019.

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“Asymmetrical Friendship” focuses on the literary figure of the dependent friend as a means of analyzing tensions between early modern and commercial social relations in the later decades of the long eighteenth-century, from 1770 to 1830. This work defines the term dependent friend broadly, as someone who relies on patrons and benefactors for their social status, in order to maintain connections between dependent friends of different races, genders, and ethnicities that the authors of this study draw in their work. Characters positioned as dependent friends from the first half of the century often rely on duplicity for their significance in a text; they act as false friends so as to test the judgment of main characters and readers. With the American and French revolutions using the language of freedom to make radical assertions over what constitutes modern social relations, the language of asymmetrical friendship appears as a British alternative in literary sociability. Late-Enlightenment conversations involving self-improvement and education, especially regarding literary representation, gave dependent friends the opportunity to represent thoughts and experiences that are distinct from their patrons without posing direct threats to traditional hierarchies. This project demonstrates how these characters thrive in this contentious environment by adhering to friendship ideals of loyalty and benevolence represented in neoclassical conceptions of friendship, while their self-interest makes them epitomic of modern commercial society. Neither privileged enough to operate in solely sentimental or unsentimental discourses, I argue that the dependent friend interrupts grand narratives of the British Enlightenment as a generator of affective individualism and emphasizes instead a relational world of ever shifting power relations.In the texts studied here, women, as well as racial, ethnic, and religious minorities find ways to adapt idealistic Enlightenment discourse on moral education, gender equality, scientific inquiry, patriotism and abolition to practical situations where inequality exists in daily life. This project addresses the dependent friend in the works of Lord Chesterfield, Samuel Johnson, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Felicia Hemans, Amelia Opie, and a variety of known and anonymous amateur poets, painters, and editors of friendship albums. Epistles and epistolary novels, moral tales, political satirical and Romantic sentimental poetry, as well as collaborative manuscripts that interweave commonplaces, emblems, and original work showcase the dependent friend’s development out of British Enlightenment discourse and highlight its legacy in Romantic aesthetics and Victorian domesticity.

ISBN: 9781085796217Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature.
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